OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecosystem Services is 19. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Animal-named businesses are low-cost, accessible indicators of wildlife socio-cultural value	144
Policy-oriented ecosystem services research on tropical forests in South America: A systematic literature review	129
The various faces of transdisciplinarity in research on ecosystem services: Editorial to Special Issue	108
Animal and plant images in corporate marketing communications are ecosystem services that should be paid for	100
Wildfires impact on ecosystem service delivery in fire-prone maritime pine-dominated forests	80
Quantifying spatially explicit LCA midpoint characterization factors to assess the impact of specific farming practices on ecosystem services	73
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review	70
Assessing a nationwide policy reform toward community-based conservation of biological diversity and ecosystem services in the Alpine North	69
Ecosystem services and gender in rural areas of Nicaragua: Different perceptions about the landscape	67
A nature-based approach to mitigate flood risk and improve ecosystem services in Shiga, Japan	64
Biological operability, a new concept based on ergonomics to assess the pertinence of ecosystem services optimization practices	62
Broadening the scope of ecosystem services research: Disaggregation as a powerful concept for sustainable natural resource management	62
Piloting a more inclusive governance innovation strategy for forest ecosystem services management in Primiero, Italy	59
Barriers to expanding continuous cover forestry in Sweden for delivering multiple ecosystem services	58
Crowdsourcing social values data: Flickr and public participation GIS provide different perspectives of ecosystem services in a remote coastal region	54
A process perspective of conceptual innovation: Integrating equity in applications of the ecosystem services concept in Ireland	51
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises	51
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach	50
Tradeoffs in people’s perceptions about ecosystem services and disservices related to bats: Implications for managing agroecosystems and conserving bats	50
Measuring non-use values to proxy conservation preferences and policy impacts	50
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs	49
Monetary value of ecosystem services in unhealthy seagrass meadows in Indonesia	48
Birdwatching preferences reveal synergies and tradeoffs among recreation, carbon, and fisheries ecosystem services in Pacific Northwest estuaries, USA	47
Cultural ecosystem services and disservices in protected areas: Hotspots and influencing factors based on tourists’ digital footprints	46
Combining scientific and local knowledge improves evaluating future scenarios of forest ecosystem services	45

Mapping stakeholder networks for the co-production of multiple ecosystem services: A novel mixed-methods approach	45
Integrating social media data and machine learning to analyse scenarios of landscape appreciation	43
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets	41
Value chain partnerships and farmer entrepreneurship as balancing ecosystem services: Implications for agri-food systems resilience	41
On the comparative use of social media data and survey data in prioritizing ecosystem services for cost-effective governance	39
Guidance for stakeholder consultation to support national ecosystem services assessment: A case study from French marine assessment	39
Modeling impacts of broad-scale plantation forestry on ecosystem services in the past 60 years and for the future	38
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts	38
Trade-offs in ecosystem services under various river management strategies of the Rhine Branches	37
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems	35
A new method to classify cultural ecosystem services and visualize their economic value: A case study of Guilin, a famous tourist destination in China	35
The importance of indigenous territories for the provision of ecosystem services: A case study in the Brazilian Cerrado-Amazon Transition	35
Mind the income gap: Income from wood production exceed income from providing diverse ecosystem services from Europe’s forests	34
Editorial special issue natural capital accounting: The content, the context, and the framework	34
Consistent ecosystem service bundles emerge across global mountain, island and delta systems	34
Assessing the synergistic value of ecosystem services in European beech forests	34
Perceived benefits from reclaimed rural landscapes: Evidence from the lowlands of the Po River Delta, Italy	33
Building the case for protecting urban nature: How urban planners use the ideas, rhetoric, and tools of ecosystem services science	33
Linking ecosystem changes to their social outcomes: Lost in translation	33
The link between a high-mountain community and ecosystem services of juniper forests in Fann Mountains (Tajikistan)	32
Potential supply and actual use of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas and their surroundings	32
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review	32
Balancing ecological and social goals in PES design – Single objective strategies are not sufficient	31
Framework for integrated Ecosystem Services assessment of the costs and benefits of large scale landscape restoration illustrated with a case study in Mediterranean Spain	31
Corrigendum to “Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants” [Ecosyst. Serv. 65 (2024) 101571]	31
The benefits of ecological restoration exceed its cost in South Africa: An evidence-based approach	30
A multi-indicator distributive justice approach to assess school-related green infrastructure benefits in Brussels	30
Assessment of the effectiveness of China’s protected areas in enhancing ecosystem services	30
Community perception of ecosystem services from commercially managed forests in Bhutan	29
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin	29
Ecosystem services and disservices associated with vultures: A systematic review and evidence assessment	29
Opportunities to integrate Ecosystem Services into Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): a case study of milk production in Brazil	28
Environmental compensation for biodiversity and ecosystem services: A flexible framework that addresses human wellbeing	28
Ecosystem valuation and eco-compensation for conservation of traditional paddy ecosystems and varieties in Kerala, India	28
Exploring mechanisms to pay for ecosystem services provided by mussels, oysters and seaweeds	28
A review of machine learning and big data applications in addressing ecosystem service research gaps	27
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria	27
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia	27
Ecosystem services from urban forests: The case of Oslomarka, Norway	27
Ecosystem services in salmon aquaculture sustainability schemes	26
Comparison of empirical and process-based modelling to quantify soil-supported ecosystem services on the Saclay plateau (France)	26
Landowner concerns related to availability of ecosystem services and environmental issues in the southern United States	26
Cultural ecosystem services: Linking landscape and social attributes to ecotourism in protected areas	26
Considering temporal flow variability of non-perennial rivers in assessing ecosystem service provision	26
Assigning value to cultural ecosystem services: The significance of memory and imagination in the conservation of Irish peatlands	26
Meta-analysis and mapping of the monetary value of Mediterranean seagrass ecosystem services	25
Linking ecosystem condition and ecosystem services: A methodological approach applied to European agroecosystems	25
Interactive spatial planning of urban green infrastructure – Retrofitting green roofs where ecosystem services are most needed in Oslo	25
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning	25
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador	25

Global assessment of ecosystem services and disservices associated with owls	25
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia	25
Mapping ecosystem services in Colombia: Analysis of synergies, trade-offs and bundles in environmental management	25
Ecosystem services concept: Challenges to its integration in government organizations	24
Return on investment for mangrove and reef flood protection	24
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings	24
Assessing the value of ecosystem services delivered by prescribed fire management in Australian tropical savannas	24
Ecosystem services and collective action: New commons, new governance challenges	23
Corrigendum to “Bats and rice: Quantifying the role of insectivorous bats as agricultural pest suppressors in rice fields” [Ecosyst. Serv. 66 (2024) 101603]	23
Reducing the finance gap for nature-based solutions with time contributions	23
Corrigendum to “Effects of linear landscape elements on multiple ecosystem services in contrasting agricultural landscapes” [Ecosyst. Ser. 67 (2024) 101616]	23
Ecosystem accounting applied to the restoration of a brackish coastal lagoon highlights the importance of individual ecosystem-level studies	23
Capital assets underpinning economic well-being – The example of whale ecosystem services in Arctic coastal communities	23
Year-to-year ecosystem services supply in conservation contexts in north-eastern Madagascar: Trade-offs between global demands and local needs	22
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making	22
A new model of pollination services potential using a landscape approach: A case study of post-mining area in Poland	22
Differentiated payments for ecosystem services based on estimated prey consumption by lions within communal conservancies in northwest Namibia	22
Accounting for the value of ecosystem services of floodplains in Germany – National studies matter	22
A conceptual framework for understanding ecosystem trade-offs and synergies, in communal rangeland systems	22
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces	22
The role of ecosystem services in the design of agroecological transitions in Spain	22
Integrating ecosystem services into policymaking – A case study on the use of boundary organizations	21
Exploring options for a PES-like scheme to conserve red panda habitat and livelihood improvement in western Nepal	21
The importance of protected areas and Indigenous lands in securing ecosystem services and biodiversity in the Cerrado	21
Reddit: A novel data source for cultural ecosystem service studies	21
Virtual spill-over effects: What social media has to do with relational values and global environmental stewardship	20
Integrating multiple influencing factors in evaluating the socioeconomic effects of payments for ecosystem services	20
Assessing forest governance innovations in Europe: Needs, challenges and ways forward for sustainable forest ecosystem service provision	20
Influence of human interventions on local perceptions of cultural ecosystem services provided by coastal landscapes: Case study of the Huiwen wetland, southern China	20
The close relationship between biophysical degradation, ecosystem services and family farms decline in Spanish agriculture (1992–2017)	20
Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia	20
Evolution and new potentials of landscape commons: Insights from Japan and Slovenia	19
The role of Earth observation in ecosystem accounting: A review of advances, challenges and future directions	19
Potential distribution of oak forests in the central Himalayas and implications for future ecosystem services supply to rural communities	19
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size	19
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios	19
Mapping cultural ecosystem services of the urban riverscapes: the case of the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland	19
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats	19
Trade-offs and synergies of forest ecosystem services from the perspective of plant functional traits: A systematic review	19
Mapping marine ecosystem services potential across an oceanic archipelago: Applicability and limitations for decision-making	19
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees by using i-tree with low-resolution satellite images	19